OLAC Services

OLAC (Office of Laboratory Animal Care) provides us with many services. If you have questions contact a veterinarian, they tend to be really helpful. The website is pretty good, too. https://www.olac.berkeley.edu.

Interacting with veterinary staff for birdcare:

Currently we are using slack (ucbolac.slack.com), with our own channel "theunissen-lab-olac" for most interactions.

They also sometimes send emails via the OASIS DB. Frederic can add people to this list.

If you really need to find a vet just go upstairs in the NAF and knock on their office doors, but they also respond quickly to slack. The vet staff email is [email protected].

Ordering Drugs:

1. Fill out a pharmacy purchase request: https://www.olac.berkeley.edu/pharmacy-purchase-request

• You don't need to know exactly where to buy it, they seem to just find it for you (in my (Bill's) experience)

2. Fill in the requested information. This includes some numbers for the current animal use protocol and grant. As of Nov 2020 these numbers are:

• Animal Use Protocol: 2016-09-9157
• Fund: 61729
• Org: 26697

3. For Heparin ask for: heparin, sodium injection usp, 10 mL

Carcass Disposal:

You can put bird carcasses in the freezer in NAF necropsy. If you want them to do a necropsy on it you should put it in the fridge instead, although I'm not sure what this entails.